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http://www.osnews.com/thread?519054Born dead.Tue, 22 May 2012 22:56:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (CapEnt)Comments...http://www.osnews.com/thread?519056
http://www.osnews.com/thread?519056Shouldn't Google subsidize these? since they are getting all that cloud information to analize.Tue, 22 May 2012 23:25:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Hiev)CommentsIsn't it the Chromebook all over again?http://www.osnews.com/thread?519064
http://www.osnews.com/thread?519064The Chromebox reminds me of the flop that was the Chromebook - overpriced kit that can do less than an equivalent rival device running a normal desktop setup with tne Chrome browser.

Slap on Ubuntu 12.04 and XBMC and you'll have a far better desktop on the Revo than the Chromebox!Edited 2012-05-22 23:55 UTCTue, 22 May 2012 23:54:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (rklrkl)Comments4GB RAM for a Browser?http://www.osnews.com/thread?519076
http://www.osnews.com/thread?5190764GB of Memory seems a bit much for what's basically a browser kiosk, isn't it?

I know some people tend to have a lot of stuff open, but I've run multiple tabs on (albeit an older version of) Chromium + an entire Linux OS behind it on an old 32bit Pentium Dual Core + 1GB RAM without the system needing to reach for the swap partition.Wed, 23 May 2012 02:01:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (gan17)CommentsChromeOS is like butter though...http://www.osnews.com/thread?519077
http://www.osnews.com/thread?519077Those who speak ill of ChromeOS machines and think they aren't worth it have never tried one. No matter what laptop/desktop you compare it to, ChromeOS is faster... The boot and awake response times are amazing. While I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro, MacOS is a dog sometimes (like connecting to my work Wifi sometimes just messes it up). ChromeOS machines connect to wifi without problems all the time every time.

Yes, they are a little pricy, but with automatic updates, you don't have to pay for OS updates and while my Chromebook runs Ubuntu as well, ChromeOS is just smoother when doing internet things.

Also, it's a little short sighted to discount them as well, cause everything is moving to the cloud (including enterprises -- who google is targeting with these devices).Wed, 23 May 2012 03:02:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (dmccrory)CommentsRE: ChromeOS is like butter though...http://www.osnews.com/thread?519081
http://www.osnews.com/thread?519081Uh wrong, all the Chromebooks where overpriced crap using very outdated surplus Atom hardware with the worst possible chipset/IGP, the Pineview chipset, with the GMA 3150 which is only 2 fixed function Pixel Pipelines at only 200Mhz with OpenGL2.1 support and only MPEG2 acceleration in hardware.

If they had used something more modern like at least a 5.9w AMD Z-01 APU http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bobcat/AMD-Z%20Series%20Z-01.... which would have been at least 2x more CPU grunt, a real dual core 64 bit CPU and something like 4x the GPU performance as well as full acceleration of every format up to H.264 all with much lower power consumption so the battery life would have been better.

The hardware was never up to the task that the target market wanted to do with them, their Youtube vids pegged the CPU, if they wanted to play any browser games the best they could hope to play is QuakeLive, anything heavier would max out the GPU.

People want something that can handle full HD video and play HTML5 WebGL games at a bare minimum and anything more then around $300 for something cat can only do just that is just too much since for $50 more you can get decent hardware that can handle those tasks and many more since they come with a full blown OS.

Also, "the cloud" is a lie, trusting your data to an advertiser's server is just as dumb as trusting their OS and Browser to not send them every little thing you've ever typed on the damn thing, as someone else stated, they should be paying you to use them since they're going to sell the data.Edited 2012-05-23 05:10 UTCWed, 23 May 2012 05:03:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Kivada)CommentsJust get a nice netbook with a proper OS insteadhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?519096
http://www.osnews.com/thread?519096WTF?!

Last February I got Asus 1215B with Linux pre-installed,
from Amazon Germany, around 300â¬.

ChromeOS is a toy OS and with these type of prices, it is already dead.Wed, 23 May 2012 07:34:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (moondevil)CommentsRE: 4GB RAM for a Browser?http://www.osnews.com/thread?519108
http://www.osnews.com/thread?519108

4GB of Memory seems a bit much for what's basically a browser kiosk, isn't it?

Visit http://ro.me/ and you might just have an answer for that Even with a recent memshrunk Firefox nightly (dev channel) it peaks over 1.5GB of memory in use.Wed, 23 May 2012 10:09:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Beta)Comments